I found a place for the new Albers litho above the fireplace. It still needs to be hung, but I think it’s groovy leaning there for now. I’m kind of toying with the idea of painting the wall behind the fireplace dark to match the actual color of the fireplace (Now I’m all in love with dark accent walls – I know I’m such an asshole) and installing a raw edge cedar wood slab mantel.
This decorating crap never ends.
What am I thankful for this Thanksgiving?
This painting. Of my mom. From the 80’s.
This painting used to be a full body portrait and has moved with my mother to many houses over the years. It’s the one painting she has that I’ve always loved and the whole family has always HATED. I think it’s hilarious, and captures that stern no shit look my mom always wore (and I unfortunately inherited) perfectly.
I finally asked my mom if I could have it and she couldn’t wait to push it on me and out of her house saying “just don’t post it on your blog with all the bad art”.
Thanks Mom!
(AFTER)
(BEFORE) (like really before before, shot during our inspection)
The RUN DOWN
After we painted and reconstructed the guest bedroom wall it was time to style it all up. I bought two new things for the guest bedroom decorating extravaganza:
1. Enje white roller shades (3) from Ikea
2. White jersey sheets (on sale for $12.50!) at Target
Otherwise, everything else was lying around the house that we needed to decorate this bitch up. And I think I can prove it…
Hey, it’s the guest bedroom credenza hiding back behind the couch so very long ago. We bought this piece years before we ever moved to The Brick House. If memory serves it was found at a Salvation Army and was $60.
Wow, a really eye jarringly ugly and old version of the master bedroom. The Malou Ikea duvet set is now gracing the guest bed and the Ikea Vinstra bed frame was our first ever bed frame we owned.
The Ikea Jorun blanket is still a favorite.
One of my $50 Craigslist cowhides is cozying up the floors.
My first butterfly chair picked up at Angel View Thrift in Palm Springs.
The $40 Craigslist sputnik chandelier.
The $50 ebay brass Laurel lamp.
My free bubble lamp pendants.
Ahhhh, Connie. I freed you of that horrid frame.
The kilim art is a painting as well…
I was going through all the old posts to find the pieces that ended up in the guest bedroom and realized that I never ever posted about this pair of tables I picked up. I found them months ago at a roadside estate sale and immediately shoved them into the guest bedroom where they languished away under piles of crap. Marked Lyon – Made in Denmark, they are teak and cost $50 for the pair.
Still to do:
-Closet door handles (custom)
-TV, Ugh.
-Alarm clock
-Headboard
